Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.
My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.
I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.
It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors.
I think I know a lot about campaigns.
I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.
I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.
The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.